Heating & Gas Questions

Fit longer gas hose myself or not?
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I want to move my gas cooker further along the kitchen wall. However the current gas hose pipe is not quite long enough. Am I able to purchase a new longer hose and fix the new hose myself or do I need a registered gas engineer?

How to run gas tracpipe under patio
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I’m a garden designer and the the client wants to run a gas tracpipe from the house to fireplace at end of the garden. I want to be sure that we lay the gas pipe correctly under the patio. Does it have to sit in a bed of sand? Then …

Draining radiators on a communal heating system
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Hi all, I have a small plumbing job to do for which I need to drain the radiators in my property. There are only two radiators, that are fed by a communal boiler, and pass through an immersion heater. I have already identified the isolation valves for the primary flow …

Combo boiler vailiant - disc fitted to inlet do not use
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Just moved in sign near boiler says disc fitted to inlet do not use what does that mean

Gas hob and electric oven install in place of free standing
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I have a free standing cooker on a wall that needs to have 2 new cupboards and a housing unit for oven and hob fitted then new worktop. i believe I have to have pipe work done for the hob. The current free standing cooker is connected by a black …

Combi Boiler issue
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I had a Baxi 800 system installed last July. It has recently started making a banging noise and then the heating turns off. Water still works fine. It has been flushed and the plate heat exchanger has been changed, but issue still persists. I have been advised the radiators are …

Radiator TRV's
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I've always understood that a Drayton TRV(4) should always go on the flow side of a radiator and the bleed valve goes on the top of the other end of the rad. Having moved onto a new, to us, old house a number of bleed valves are on the same …

Economy 7 hot water heater timing
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My tenant says they have a bath in the morning and the water is then cold all day. On economy 7 so does it only heat at night . They say they have switched on the boost but it doesn't heat up during the day.

UFH. Air source pump?
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I’ve had a kitchen/diner single storey extension built on my 1890 semi. The existing kitchen and extension have had UFH piping/manifold fitted but not connected to any water or heating. The rest of the house is heated by multi fuel stove back boiler so cannot be used for the UFH. …

Does elbows in gas pipe affect flow?
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Hi, I have 10 elbows in my gas pipe from the gas meter to the boiler. A plumber has told me that this will reduce the flow of gas going into the boiler and so it will not be enough flow to fit a combi boiler and the max I …